Theme: Economic growth and development before 1900 Keynote speaker: Jan Luiten van Zanden, “The North Sea area and the origins of ‘modern economic growth’, 1200-1800” FRESH meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The meetings build on the concept...

We are pleased to announce the programme of this international workshop, bringing together historians interested in consumption and standards of living since the eighteenth century, whether from an economic, social or cultural perspective. Areas in which proposals would be welcome include: -...

PhD students and young scholars (PhD degree after January 2009) on history of economic thought, economic philosophy and economic history are invited to apply to this Summer School. The Summer School will include a series of seminars and lectures by invited speakers on the theme Economic crises...

The theme for the Conference will be ‘Business Finance and the State in 20th Century: European Comparisons in Historical Perspectives, Crisis and Transformation’. The theme of the conference refers to the debate and discussion of economic crises and recessions in the 20th century, stimulated...

The topic of the conference will be “Monetary Policies and Banking Institutions in South-Eastern Europe between National Objectives and European Patterns – a Historical and Comparative Perspective”.

This workshop provides an opportunity for all those interested in the subject of negative nominal interest rates to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that are broadly consistent with the workshop’s special topic.

The aim of the group is to bring together the large number of researchers in aggregate economics who are using modern dynamic theory to investigate substantive historical questions. Research presented at past meetings covered a very broad range of topics, including analyses of great depressions;...

Thema: Verstaatlichung und Privatisierung Die Veranstaltung soll sich mit der Verstaatlichung und Privatisierung in einem breiten Rahmen befassen. Die möglichen Themen reichen von der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion über betriebswirtschaftliche und sozialgeschichtliche (Mitarbeiter,...

Papers submitted may be in any of the following areas related to: - Monetary policy - Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions - Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand - Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations - Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates - Corporate...

This workshop aims to bring together economic theorists, applied economists, demographers, and economic historians working on unified growth theory. It will provide a forum for discussion of recent research on what facilitated the transition to self-sustaining growth. Some of the possible topics...